Get Up Everybody and (Vogel)Sing: The 2016 Pittsburgh Pirates

A friend of mine just gave me his mlb.tv password, so hopefully I'll be able to keep track again. Without the internet I'm pretty much blocked from following baseball. Just got offered a flat though, so in a month I'll be able to keep up.

vogelsong took a fastball to the face

extended polanco just in time, apparently

jeff locke, babip master

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available for a limited time at your local giant eagle

rip francisco liriano, guess heaven needed someone outdueled by jared weaver

taillon time

time for Metsies to end 9-game losing streak vs Buccos

i hadnt seen jah jasos hair before, wheres the ped test

neil walker, manchurian infielder

If I was still doing fantasy baseball, I'd have to name my team Jaso Frightwig.

neil walker, manchurian infielder

― mookieproof, Wednesday, June 8, 2016 7:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

@Pirates
ROSTER MOVE: Kyle Lobstein has been recalled from Indy and Jameson Taillon has been optioned to Triple-A.

with doubleheaders and shitty starters and one-day trips to colorado, they needed relievers. he should be back soon; only question is which of the non-cole starters he supplants

Steady Lobbin'

Pittsburgh Pirates starter Gerrit Cole exited Friday's start against the St. Louis Cardinals in the third inning due to right triceps tightness, the team announced.

He is being treated and will be re-examined on Saturday.

doom

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otm

welp

i guess i have to look up the diagnosis on Cole now, as everyone's too cool to post actual news on threads anymore.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-pirates-lousy-weekend-might-have-sunk-their-season

cole to the 15-day DL, rip

taillon looks like a young lackey

not his pitching style his face

mook, what's with Cutch? kinda long for a slow start.

heard he has a wrist injury, but i dunno. it's pretty bad -- he's the pirates' fourth-best outfielder 60 games into the season

and considering he's only their third-best defensive outfielder, he shouldn't be playing center either

under .500; brewers are creeping up

where have you gone, ray searage's magic

erik kratz!

Please tell me his nickname is Wild Kratz.

yung chad kuhl not having a great top of the 1st huh

got out of it, but 3 consecutive walks is not great bob

whoops, 2

might be a lil nervous, making his mlb debut against kershaw on national tv

I think it's that horrible fucking hat tbh

just went through a 1-2-3 nicely tho, even when it's the bottom of an order still nice to see from a rook

!

destroyed space and time there

i mean Kershaw

bodes well for the Wild Card game

pirates blew a chance for their first four-game sweep of the dodgers since . . . 1944

well shit

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-jung-ho-kang-accused-sexual-assault-in-chicago-20160705-story.html

try glasnow more

Jon Niese wanted to get away Sunday afternoon.

Niese had showered, dressed and was clutching the handlebars of his motorized scooter — decaled with a Donald Trump campaign sticker — as the media entered the clubhouse after the Pirates' 6-5 loss to the Chicago Cubs.

After allowing five runs and eight hits over 3 2/3 innings Sunday, Niese finished the first half with a 5.13 ERA.

smdh

i'm assuming all the white guys have em til i hear othwise

somehow i missed the news that polanco was extended a couple months ago. great move by the pirates, i really like him. he's tied in my mind to oscar taveras because they came up around the same time and had similar hitting profiles, i guess. for whatever reason he always reminds me of OT and for that reason alone i want him to be a HOF

https://twitter.com/sbnation/status/754812314558210048

me irl

93 games into the season:

francisco liriano: -0.3 bwar
andrew mccutchen: -0.4 bwar

i have no idea what the pirates are doing

jfc

wouldn't surprise me if the jays immediately cut liriano and pocketed mcguire/ramirez but i guess they have nothing to lose by giving him a few innings. he's been legit awful this year, but he was actually good as recently as 12 months ago -- does he really have less upside than wade miley, whom the orioles acquired on purpose?

i think pirate fans have made their peace with the fact that the team's not going to sign big free agents, which is fine. they seldom work out. giving up two decent prospects just to dump liriano's salary is pathetic, though. i want to see what they plan to do with that $15m they just saved -- essentially nothing in today's market. not only that, the guy they got back from toronto is a fly-ball pitcher who gives up too many homers -- exactly the kind of pitcher they've avoided for years.

at least they're not moving to cobb county, i guess

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alas, no serpico bobblehead

Thought it was Mac from Always Sunny.

gerrit cole threw 114 pitches before they took him out today